Who's job is it?

Funny that I came across this discussion at this time. In this house lives three adults and they we are all responsible for our own laundry. My grandson did some laundry before going to work and lift it in the dryer. My granddaughter did her laundry and put his clothes on his bed. As she was putting her clothes in the dryer she found about $6.00. We had a discussion about whose the $6.00 was. I just told her to do the right thing. Usually if someone finds any thing in the washer or dryer it then becomes theirs.

I never check pockets. When the kids were home, sometimes I did because they would sometimes leave paper or stuff in them. But with just me and my husband home, I never check them. We never leave things in our pockets - well almost never LOL

As the courtroom falls into silence as they eagerly await the verdict, the judge has heard the discussion by Humbug previously and he passes down the sentence to those that fail to check their OWN clothes for any offending articles, it is not therefore the responsibility of the person who has the task bestowed onto them to do the washing it is down to the person to check their clothes that they haven't left anything in them, and if they have then it's them that are to litigated ;0)

Hi Humbug, Well I would say it was my responsibility to check pockets etc until my children were of an age to check themselves. The last washing mistake I made was to shrink a handwash jumper of my daughters, from that moment on she has always (as requested) kept handwash separate from the rest of the washing. I have washed a few tissues, stickers, cars, stones and pennies. I thinkl that is all part of being a mum LOL. Huggles. Ellie :D

the family think that the role falls to me

Honestly, it's a primary responsibility of the owner of the dress to check his pockets but we all know that children are still immature and some people forgot to check their dress maybe because they are too tired to do it, so that's the time that the washer should check everything first before washing it.

That depends Humbug on what is in the pockets. Vast sums of money. Then it's always my job. Tissues, bus tickets, bits of polo wrapper. Then the owner of the pocket for sure.

Hey there humbug25, I think the person washing the cloths should check the pockets, but I also think that whenever possible those who want there close clean should sometimes help in checking the pockets. and I dont remember if I responded to your last discussion about things people found in the was, but I want to tell you that my mom once lost her ID card and later found it in the was after she had washed close and amazingly the ID card was still in tact lol.

In my house if you want what's in your pockets you need to remove it before you put it in the wash. I take no responsibility for things that get ruined because you didn't empty your pockets before putting your clothes in the wash. My kids learned early that anything left in their pockets became the property of the person doing the laundry. That was usually me until they got older. My husband was affected by this rule, too. Sometimes I would make quite a tidy sum from the washing machine and dryer.